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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Hey everybody. It was packed. This always works.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. Dev Ittycheria – President and CEO of MongoDB. I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. This was certainly one of them.

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Assembling A World-Class Customer Success Organization: An Interview With Stephen Fulkerson, TSIA’s VP Customer Success Research

Valuize Consulting

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Securing angel/seed money. **We The first thing you may think, as we did, is “Does it matter? Do you really need to know what phase your company is in?”. According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Finding channel/market fit.

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Paid Search Management For SaaS Start-ups - An Interview With Soren Ryherd, CEO, Working Planet

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 20 min read Soren Ryherd is Co-Founder and President of Working Planet , a paid search agency located in Providence, Rhode Island. Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. We kicked the idea around and launched Working Planet two weeks later.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions.

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Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 583)

SaaStr

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster.

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